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Mapping Manuscript Migrations: digging into data for the history and provenance of pre-modern European manuscripts

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Mapping Manuscript Migrations: digging into data for the history and provenance of pre-modern European manuscripts

Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of pre-modern European manuscripts have survived until the present day. As the result of changes in their ownership over the centuries, they are now spread all over the world. Collectively they constitute a great cultural and scholarly treasure. There are many sources of data relating to them, and new sources continue to proliferate in the digital environment. This project will link disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and provenance of these manuscripts. The aggregated data will enable researchers to analyse and visualize these topics at scales ranging from individual manuscripts to thousands of manuscripts. Our research will address their origins and movements, and the collectors and owners involved in their history. We will be able to show how these manuscripts have traveled across time and space to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences.

Principal Investigators

Toby Burrows, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, AHRC/ESRC (GBP 119,800.29)

Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Finland, AKA (EUR 174,992.00)

Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania, United States, IMLS (USD 172,621.00)

Data Repositories

In advance of the DID Challenge, the funders approached many major repositories of digital materials and asked them to provide contact and technical support information for gaining access to their collections. This list is constantly being updated, so check back often. If you are a representative of such a collection and wish to be added to this list, please contact the DID Challenge organizers.

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